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Eat This Newsletter 133: Entirely whole
August 31, 2020
Hello I’ve enjoyed doing the newsletter every week, and I’m also enjoying arranging and editing forthcoming episodes of the podcast, which will resume next...
Eat This Newsletter 132: Underserved
August 24, 2020
Hello The main conclusion I draw from this week’s selection of goodies that that when you really think about things, they are seldom as simple as others...
Eat This Newsletter 131: Underserved
August 17, 2020
Hello No sooner have I got it into my head that a weekly newsletter is a good thing, especially while I am not actively making podcasts, than the well runs a...
Eat This Newsletter 130: Ghosts
August 10, 2020
Hello Lots of stories today strung together somewhat loosely by the nature of place. The places people are from, the places crop plants are from, the places...
ETN 129: Capital
August 3, 2020
Hello My plan was to lead this issue with the news that foie gras can now be had legally in California, with a link to the episode about foie gras with...
ETN 128: Global concerns
July 27, 2020
Hello I hope you enjoyed the previous edition of Eat This Newsletter. Because I was away, I have a bit of a backlog of stuff I’ve collected, and because I am...
Eat This Newsletter 127: Ingenious solutions
July 20, 2020
Hello Yes, I’ve been away. No, I’m not going to anguish here about all the dead olive trees still littering the landscape of Salento. And though I will...
Eat This Podcast: Coffee, but not as we know it
June 29, 2020
Hello I thought I was pretty savvy about coffee taxonomy knowing that there were two kinds, arabica and robusta. Not surprisingly, perhaps, a research paper...
Eat This Newsletter 126: Hop off
June 22, 2020
Hello Frog legs have never really appealled to me. I can see that they might provide useful protein as well as pest-control services to a rice farmer, but as...
Eat This Podcast: Alexis Soyer: The very model of a modern chef
June 15, 2020
Hello Long before the current crop of celebrity chefs, Alexis Soyer showed how it should be done. He cooked unimaginably luxurious — and expensive — dinners...
Eat This Newsletter 125: Bad apples
June 8, 2020
Hello It has been a difficult couple of weeks, even sitting on the sidelines, trying to listen rather than to speak. However, speak I must, if only to...
Eat This Podcast: Questions of Taste
June 1, 2020
Hello This is the third in a little mini-series on taste. Can we disentangle aspects of gustatory taste that are common to all human beings from those that...
Eat This Newsletter 124: Indigenous
May 18, 2020
Hello Bit of a mixed bag this time, so let’s start with possibly the most useful news of the past two weeks: New test could guarantee the perfect avocado. No...
Eat This Podcast: You are what you drink
May 11, 2020
Or maybe you drink what you are. Hello This is the second episode in my little mini-series on taste. Chad Ludington, author of The Politics of Wine in...
Eat This Newsletter 123: Meat matters
May 4, 2020
Hello Last time I tried hard to find stories that were not about Covid-19. What has emerged clearly, though, is that the disease has suddenly opened people’s...
Eat This Podcast: What is good taste? What tastes good?
April 27, 2020
Hello Can we say anything sensible about taste? Part of me knows that taste is entirely subjective. But another part of me is quite willing to think about...
Eat This Newsletter 122: a series of smooth segues
April 20, 2020
Hello It is all but impossible to avoid Covid stories about food, or anything else. I’ve tried, honest. Other diseases are still around Not to make light of...
Eat This Podcast: The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
April 13, 2020
Hello The Man Who Tried to Feed the World is the title of a new TV documentary about Norman Borlaug, the plant breeder credited with launching the Green...
Eat This Newsletter 121: Ooops. I forgot one of the links.
April 6, 2020
Hello I hope everyone is bearing up. We certainly are, and if my homemade pizza isn’t as good as the stuff we’re accustomed to, well … too bad. At least it...
Eat This Podcast: The true heart of Russian Food
March 30, 2020
Hello Darra Goldstein combines a scholar’s knowledge of history and literature with a cook’s interest in recipes and ingredients. Her latest book took her on...
Eat This Newsletter 120: An opportunity?
March 23, 2020
Hello I’m honestly torn about today’s issue of the newsletter. People are sharing all sorts of tips about how to cook in a time of crisis, some more paranoid...
Eat This Podcast: Remembering the food of the past, no matter how bad it was
March 16, 2020
Hello The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food – published in 1939 – was a complete guide for Soviet citizens. It was both practical and propaganda, with pictures...
Eat This Newsletter 119: Ceci n’est pas une poire
March 9, 2020
Hello Few but good, that’s the underlying narrative for this edition of Eat This Newsletter. Apples and pears A charming story about Isabella dalla Ragione,...
Eat This Podcast: Orange-fleshed sweet potato
March 2, 2020
Hello You can be perfectly well fed, maybe even too well fed, and yet still malnourished. Hidden hunger reflects a lack of essential micronutrients in the...
Eat This Newsletter 118: Toot toot
February 24, 2020
Hello Maybe it’s because I have now been at this lark for almost seven years, but everything I see as I wander the interwebs seems to relate to something...
Eat This Podcast: Another cup of coffee culture
February 17, 2020
Hello The UK was not a big coffee drinker for quite a while after the first proper espresso machines made their appearance in Soho. Not so the United States,...
Eat This Newsletter 117: Old and new
February 10, 2020
Hello I’ve been doing a bit of an early spring clean in some of the places where I keep lists of things I want to read at some point, and in the process...
Eat This Podcast: Coffee culture in Italy and England
February 3, 2020
Hello Why is this man having a shave while he is being served a cappuccino? Because he has time. The coffee is so hot it is going to take a while to reach...
Eat This Newsletter 116: Eat well
January 27, 2020
Eat well to do good Hello Veganuary is almost over, for those partaking, and my offerings this week briefly reflect the hot water carnivory has got itself...
Eat This Podcast: A spurtle makes a superior stirrer
January 20, 2020
Hello With a bag of porridge oats in my baggage, I set off for Georgetown University and a date with science. What we discovered, thanks to the efforts of Dr...
Eat This Newsletter 115: Chewy bonus
December 30, 2019
Some things to chew on Hello I know I said I was going to take a holiday break, but it turns out I couldn’t keep away. Mostly that’s because I have no desire...
Eat This Podcast: Not car sharing, cow sharing
December 23, 2019
Hello In some cities, you can download an app to your phone that gives you access to a car, yours to drive for a flat fee per minute. Something similar is...
Eat This Newsletter 114: Happies
December 16, 2019
Wring out the old Hello This is almost certainly the last newsletter before I take a holiday break. Whatever you’re doing, I hope you have a good time. I...
Eat This Podcast: Pasta Grannies: Every family shoould have one
December 9, 2019
Hello Each week, a kindly, twinkling grannie creates pasta by hand, making it look as easy as falling off a log. Her hands work unsupervised; kneading,...
Eat This Newsletter 113: Plenty
December 2, 2019
Hello Christmas has come early this year, with a sackful of pieces that are not only long and entertaining reads, but also stretch beyond the USA, even those...
Eat This Podcast: Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique
November 25, 2019
Hello After the previous episode on how capuchin monkeys find their food, a few of you told me that you hadn’t known how difficult and dangerous it is to get...
Eat This Newsletter 112: Depressing
November 18, 2019
Hello Here’s a strange little research result. A group of young people in Indonesia were offered tastes of nine different samples of tempeh. (Tempeh is a...
Eat This Podcast: How capuchin monkeys learn about food
November 11, 2019
Hello Chimpanzees fishing for termites with a slender branch is, by now, old hat. But did you know that capuchin monkeys, much less closely related to our...
Eat This Newsletter 111: Foodstuffs
October 28, 2019
Hello If you're reading this, relax. You're already entered for the prize draw of a copy of Peter Hertzmann's new book, 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot. Probably....
Eat This Podcast: 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot
October 21, 2019
Hello A rainbow handful of carrots graces the cover of Peter Hertzmann’s new book. But you can’t judge a book by its cover. Or even by its title, because...
Eat This Newsletter 110: Porridge (and other) news
October 14, 2019
Hello Another round-up of food-related stuff that I think you may find interesting. Some spurtle thoughts, after last week’s episode. I asked another...
Eat This Podcast: Porridge
October 7, 2019
Hello Normally, I’m the last person in the world to know about the international day of this, that or the other. Not this year. This year is different,...
Eat This Newsletter 109: No news is bad news
September 30, 2019
There's no escape from agricultural policy these days, not even if you retreat to rice in history. You get what you pay for Or maybe you pay for what you...
Eat This Podcast: Radish redux
September 23, 2019
Hello “All the intrigue of a murder mystery and all the painstaking, arduous pursuit of an archeological dig.” For a radish. Well, the quote is from a press...
Eat This Newsletter 108: Govern, please
September 16, 2019
An opportunity to change food for the better I have no idea what Brexit will mean for food in the UK in the short-term. I do know what it could mean in the...
Eat This Podcast: When in Rome
September 9, 2019
Hello Rome was founded on the promise of a food-based prophesy, and over the past couple of millennia has seen a lot of change in what passes for Roman...
Eat This Newsletter 107: microbes!
September 2, 2019
Hello, and welcome to all new subscribers. Lots to chew on this issue. Every month is microbes month Sourdough September is upon us once again. A noble...
Eat This Podcast: A sweet sour story
August 26, 2019
Hello A while ago, I was sitting in O’Seachnasaíth’s public house in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick in Ireland, enjoying a final Guinness after the Hearsay Audio...
Eat This Newsletter 106: restaurants and more
August 19, 2019
Hello Who’d be a restaurant critic? I’m old enough to remember when Bourne & Hollingsworth was a rather dowdy department store in London. Now, apparently, it...
Eat This Podcast: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
August 12, 2019
Hello In 2013, a few olive trees near Gallipoli, in Lecce province in the heel of Italy’s boot, seemed to be dying of drought even though there was water....
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